News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-10
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS RECORDED
IN THE PAPERS.

| NOTABLE EN ENIS hECOhibED
IN THE PAPERS.
Lost his Pack-A Gold Mine-Curi-
Gus Boots-A Gamblers En-
cuse-RebeIs in China, g., &c.
PIERRE VAUx has just died in penal
servitude at Cayenne. Thirty-five years
! ago, being then a school teacher at
Longepierre, he was convicted of arson
through the efforts of the Imperiahst
Mayor, who hated him because he was
a Republican, and was sentenced to i'm
| prisOnment i'll the hulk for life. Later
on the same Mayor caused the convic-
ton of six other Republicans for the
same offence, but was charged with him
self having set all the fires, and being
arrested committed suicide in jail
Meantime ten applications for Pierre
| Vaux's pardon had been made, and in
dorsed by the officers of the hulks,
whose esteem he won by his exemplary
department, but more exciting affairs
crowded them away from official atten-
ton. Now the French Government has
decided his rehabilitation" which is a
certification that he ought to have been
| pardoned, and the nearest thing to JUS
tice that can be done for dead man.
| EIGHTY EIGHT men, who are called
"rebels, belonging to a certain religious
Sect" have been beheaded at one time
in Chang Chou, China. The offence
of this sect seems to be that they appear
| in the streets as vendors of children's
| toys, the chief of which are cash swords,
| daggers and dragons, each formed out
| of $50 of the cash coins, strung together
in various shapes. They are said to
have annoyed the people great deal by
cheating the children, and to have
caused much disturbance by higgling
about prices, and Chinese paper naive
ly adds: "Since the above mentioned
cases have been so severely dealt with,
not one of them has been seen on the
street. The people highly appreciate
the enforcement of stringent laws and
prompt action"
OTTER BELT, one of the greatest of
Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Terri
tory few days ago. Five minutes
before his death they held him erect
and rugged him out in his best war
costume. They painted him red, set
his war bonnet on his head, tied up his
hair in beaver skins, and laid him down
just as he died. Then his five wives
took sharp butcher knives, slashed their
faces with long, deep cuts, cut them
selves in other places, and beat their
bleeding bodies and pulled their hair.
They also burned everything they had,
tepees, furniture, and even most of the
clothing they had on. A big crowd of
bucks looked on and killed ten horses,
including favorite team of Fress Adj
dington, on whose ranch Otter Belt
lived.
New SOUTH WALES has sent to the
Queen for her approval an Act facilitat-
ing divorce which equals the famous
Illinois and Connecticut laws. It pro-
vides that whenever husband and wife
remain away from one another for three
years without personal or written COM
munication, either may get divorce
Cruelty continued for two years is a
legitimate ground against the husband,
but not against the wife. A continual
habit of drunkenness for two years is,
however, a valid plea for either party
to put in against the other, provided it
prevents the husband from providing
for the wife or the wife from performing
her domestic duties. A man, apparently, |
may keep as drunk as he pleases pro
vided he gives his wife plenty of money.
A FRENCH opera manager was in
despair at the prospect of having to
produce "L'Africaine'' with white ne
grOes in the ballet, because the dancers
Iefused to black their faces for fear it |
would injure their compilations. He
issued an order, however, that all the |
young and pretty girls must color their
faces, because it would do them no harm,
while the old and plain ones would be
allowed to appear without black faces,
because they had more need to take |
care of their looks. The result was that |
every blessed one of the, girls tried to |
get on more black tn an any of the 9TH
ers, and when the ballet was on the |
stage half dozen extra calciums had to |
be used to keep the audience from think |
ing the lights had all gone out.
NJ. NJ. FLOWERS, ten-year convict
in the penitentiary at Jacksonville,
Ind, was deprived last week of a deck
of playing cards which it had cost him
On immense amount of pains to make
It is customary for the Warden of the
prison to issue each month to every we'll
behaved convict ''reward of merit,
showing his standing snd emitting him
to certain privileges. They are printed
ON heavy cardboard and were carefully
treasured by Flowers, who cut them to
the proper size with a sharp nail and
laboriousl y printed the spots and figures
on them with pen and ink. It took him
nearly four years to get together enough
cards to make full deck.
and murderous munitiOn of war in Rus
STA. 1t was discovered by Russian
engineer, and is as strong as pyroxy-
line and ten times cheaper than salt
petre powder. 1t possesses great su-
periority over all explosives of the dy-
Mantle class by the fact that when fred
its force does not strike downward, but
entirely forward. It can be used, it is
said, for all purposes to which ordinary
gunpowder is now applied without any
damage to the weapon discharged. The
Minister of War is having a special fac
tory built for its manufacture. The
composition is a secret.
A SAN FRANIsCo gambler has written
to the Examiner letter in defence of his
business, and ends with this chunk of
wisdom: Putting aside the question of
what it costs to learn a profession, who,
I ask, confers the greatest benefits on
the world, the lawyer or the profession
al gambler? The latter unquestiona-
bly,. For the lawyer gets his wealth
from people who are commonly account
ed wise, while the gambler makes pre-
carious livelihood from those who are
conceded to be fools, and
in curing folly I hold myself to be the
moral superior of him who discourages
wisdom"
In SERvIA, Bulgaria, and Roumania
boots made of bullock's hide OF leather,
and which are simply a flat piece of
leather drawn over the foot all arond
and fastened by leather thongs or birch
bark crossed over the leg, which is in
cased in either stockings or piece of red
cloth, are worn by the peasantry. The
Slavonic peasantry in Austria also wear
boots of the same description, and so do
the Turkish soldiers, but they make
their own. The Russian peasants make
shoes of birch bark, and fasten them in
the same way over stockings, except in
winter, when high leather boots are
worn.
PARIS is adopting woodpaving. The